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Call Number: Adult Book / Nonfiction / Literary Arts / General / Rosenbloom, Megan
On Shelf At: Westgate Branch
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The First Printing -- This Dreadful Workshop -- Gentlemen Collectors -- Skin Craft -- Secrets of the Sages-Femmes -- The Long Shadow of the Night Doctors -- The Postmortem Travels of William Corder -- Echoes of Tanner's Close -- The Highwayman's Gift -- Ghosts in the Library -- My Corpse, My Choice -- The French Connection -- Epilogue: Humane Anatomy -- The Anthropodermic Book Project's List of Confirmed Human Skin Books as of March 2020.
"A medical librarian presents a fascinating, terrifying look into history's rarest books-- those bound in human skin-- and the stories of their creation and collection"-- Provided by publisher.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020.
Year Published: 2020
Description: 274 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780374134709
0374134707
SUBJECTS
Anthropodermic books.